From: Brian Ziel <bri...@sco.COM> Subject: SCO's UNIXWARE 7 POWERS HIGH-VOLUME INTEL SERVERS INTO THE DATA CENTER Date: 1999/03/18 Message-ID: <4.1.19990318141255.00a86e10@mars.sco.com> X-Deja-AN: 456306632 Sender: scoann...@xenitec.on.ca (comp.unix.sco.announce moderator) Approved: scoann...@xenitec.on.ca Submit-To: scoann...@xenitec.on.ca Followup-To: comp.unix.sco.misc Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. Resent-By: scoann-modera...@xenitec.on.ca Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.announce This announcement was made today at CeBIT. ========= FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRESS CONTACTS: Brian Ziel SCO Tel: +1- 831-427-7252 bri...@sco.com SCO's UNIXWARE 7 POWERS HIGH-VOLUME INTEL SERVERS INTO THE DATA CENTER New UnixWare 7 Release Delivers Data Center Capabilities for Volume Server Systems, Leverages New Intel Processors and Is Key Step toward "Monterey 64" CeBIT '99, Hanover, Germany (March 18, 1999) - During a CeBIT press conference today, SCO (NASDAQ:SCOC), together with leading enterprise partners, announced UnixWare 7 Data Center Edition - the most powerful and advanced server operating environment for volume Intel servers. It is the first operating system to fully exploit the new generation of Intel processors and a key milestone on the path to "Monterey 64". "This release is an important milestone that marks a new era of data center computing," said Ray Anderson, senior vice president of Marketing at SCO. "Today, SCO is delivering the power that volume Intel systems need to move into the data center. Large enterprises can now adopt a high-volume, standards-based environment that delivers top price/performance with the high reliability and scalability that is required for data center computing." Built for Large Scale Computing UnixWare 7 Data Center Edition is designed and tuned for data center applications on the highest-end, multi-processing Intel servers, including unprecedented database performance for the demanding data mining and data warehousing tasks. It achieves levels of reliability, scalability and capacity never before seen in any volume operating system. Rock-solid Reliability and Availability: System enhancements provide for 10,000 hours Mean Time Before Software Stops (MTBSS), translating into about one hour of planned and unplanned downtime per year, or 99.99% availability. With UnixWare clustering, downtime is virtually eliminated. Unparalleled Scalability and Capacity: UnixWare 7 Data Center Edition ships standard with support for 32GB of main memory and eight processors. By licensing support for additional CPUs, these can be expanded to 64GB and 32 processors, which is far beyond the capabilities of other volume Intel based systems and beyond most RISC based UNIX systems. UnixWare 7 Data Center Edition ships with licenses for 150 users, which can be dynamically extended by simply increasing the user license count to support thousands of users. Networking improvements have resulted in a significant increase in TCP/IP scalability and performance. The new edition supports data center-class diagnostics with an SQL-based system and application event log and reporting tool. This provides for auditing and alert processing, using sophisticated query-based reporting mechanisms. Comprehensive management of complex data center environments can now be handled by extracting information using standard SQL-based tools. The system also includes built-in disk striping, mirroring and spanning. ""UnixWare 7 Data Center Edition addresses key customer needs by providing improved availability, reliability and scalability," said Mary McDowell, Vice President and General Manager, Industry Standard Server Division at Compaq Computer Corporation. "Customers requiring a highly reliable UNIX operating system on industry standard platforms are the ultimate beneficiaries of the UnixWare 7 Data Center Edition running on Compaq ProLiant servers." As part of the UnixWare 7 Release 7.1 product line, this edition includes the acclaimed Webtop, providing users with easy access to server-based applications from any browser, anywhere in the world. It delivers ultimate manageability for systems administrators, reducing applications deployment and maintenance time. Leverages New Generation of Intel Power UnixWare 7 Data Center Edition provides optimal support for the new generation of Intel processor-based systems. With new, high-powered 8-way Intel processor-based systems due later this year, UnixWare 7 Data Center Edition is already designed to maximize the performance capabilities of these servers. Road to "Monterey 64" SCO recognizes the investment its customers have made in 32-bit computing and provides a safe path to 64-bit computing on IA-64. UnixWare 7 is an integral component of "Project Monterey", an initiative with IBM, Intel and Sequent to deliver a single, volume UNIX product line for current and future 32-bit and 64-bit systems. The entire UnixWare 7 Release 7.1 product line serves as the base for future AIX technology updates as part of the Monterey family integration plans. Enterprise Vendors Back UnixWare System UnixWare is backed by leading enterprise OEMs, making it the most widely-supported UNIX system on the market today. Compaq, Data General, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, ICL, Siemens, Unisys and others have endorsed UnixWare for the enterprise. Enterprise ISVs such as BEA, CA, IBM, Informix, Oracle and many others have endorsed UnixWare as a power deployment platform for enterprise applications. "Combining Oracle's industry leading information management software with the scalability and reliability of UnixWare 7 Data Center Edition enables users to achieve new levels of power, performance and ease-of-use," said Raymond Wong, VP of Platform Technologies Division at Oracle Corporation. "Oracle, together with UnixWare 7 Data Center Edition, create an ideal platform for businesses running OLTP, electronic commerce, data warehousing and ERP applications." Pricing and Availability UnixWare 7 Data Center Edition begins shipping immediately. Suggested US pricing is $9,999. See http://www.sco.com/unixware/product_family/ for additional product detail. About SCO SCO is the world's number one provider of UNIX server operating systems, and the leading provider of network computing software that enables clients of all kinds - including PCs, graphical terminals, NCs, and other devices - to have Webtop access to business-critical applications running on servers of all kinds. SCO designed Tarantella software, the world's first application broker for network computing. SCO sells and supports its products through a worldwide network of distributors, resellers, systems integrators, and OEMs. For more information, see SCO's WWW home page at: http://www.sco.com . ### SCO, The Santa Cruz Operation, the SCO logo, Tarantella, and UnixWare are trademarks or registered trademarks of The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc, in the US and other countries. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the US and other countries. All other brand or product names are or may be trademarks of, and are used to identify products or services of, their respective owners. ---------------------------- Brian Ziel Senior PR Manager Tel: 831-427-7252 Fax: 831-427-5418 mailto:bri...@sco.com http://www.sco.com/press ----------------------------
From: Brian Ziel <bri...@sco.COM> Subject: SCO AND LEADING ENTERPRISE SYSTEM VENDORS BRING NEW ERA OF VOLUME ECONOMICS TO THE DATA CENTER Date: 1999/03/18 Message-ID: <4.1.19990318141123.00a75100@mars.sco.com> X-Deja-AN: 456306630 Sender: scoann...@xenitec.on.ca (comp.unix.sco.announce moderator) Approved: scoann...@xenitec.on.ca Submit-To: scoann...@xenitec.on.ca Followup-To: comp.unix.sco.misc Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. Resent-By: scoann-modera...@xenitec.on.ca Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.announce This announcement was made today at CeBIT in Germany. =========== FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRESS CONTACT: Monika Laud SCO Tel: 831-427-7421 moni...@sco.com SCO AND LEADING ENTERPRISE SYSTEM VENDORS BRING NEW ERA OF VOLUME ECONOMICS TO THE DATA CENTER High-Volume Model Moves Up-Market; New UnixWare Hits Milestone Along "Project Monterey" Roadmap CeBIT '99, Hanover, Germany (March 18, 1999) - SCO (NASDAQ: SCOC) and industry-leading enterprise partners today introduced the beginning of new era in data center computing that delivers the benefits of "volume economics". Driving this change are the latest generation of Intel multiprocessor-based servers and the new UnixWare 7 Data Center Edition, offering advanced data center capabilities for IA-32 systems and compatibility with the forthcoming "Monterey 64" UNIX operating system. The volume economic model derives benefits from the pervasiveness of commodity hardware and software platforms. With the arrival of high-powered, high-volume enterprise servers and operating systems, this model is moving up into the enterprise and data center. "The high-volume model is a pragmatic approach that delivers what's important to customers, such as improved performance, higher quality, better affordability and wider application availability," said Doug Michels, president and CEO of SCO. "That's why we're seeing such a strong push for this model to move up-market into the enterprise and data center. SCO and its OEM partners drive a huge portion of a worldwide UNIX business that totals billions of dollars every year. Their support clearly indicates that the move to a high-volume model continues to gain momentum." Many of today's midrange and high-end systems that run data center and "glass house" operations require custom-built applications, tools and other components. Businesses today are seeking to control costs, increase flexibility, and adopt new technologies, while still maintaining the stability and reliability of their systems. "Large organizations depend upon standards-based, interoperable, scalable, manageable operating environments," said Dan Kusnetzky, director of operating environment and serverware research at International Data Corporation (IDC). "As these organizations adopt today's high end Intel-based systems and tomorrow's IA64-based systems, these operating environments become even more important. After all, over 50% of all UNIX server operating environments ran on Intel-based systems in 1998." According to IDC, the UnixWare operating system is currently the fastest growing UNIX server operating environment in the industry. By 2002, IDC predicts the UNIX market for Intel processor-based systems will double in volume and triple in revenue.* "The UnixWare platform takes advantage of the power of our new Pentium III Xeon processors," said John Miner, vice president and general manager of Intel's Enterprise Server Group. "Leading systems vendors are delivering bigger, faster and more reliable Intel Architecture-based servers than ever before. With the availability of clustering and 8-way systems, Intel-based platforms running UnixWare 7 will further penetrate large enterprises and data warehouses." SCO Delivers Solid Roadmap for the New Millennium The new UnixWare 7 Data Center Edition is a direct result of the data center initiative announced in February 1998, between SCO, Compaq, Data General, ICL and Unisys. This release enables large enterprises to deploy high-powered, volume Intel systems immediately, with a solid 32-bit and 64-bit roadmap to the future. The new UnixWare release is an integral component of "Project Monterey", a joint project of SCO, IBM, Intel, and Sequent to deliver a single UNIX product line for current and future 32-bit and 64-bit systems. "Today, our work on Project Monterey with SCO is building momentum, especially for the available 32-bit UNIX on Intel-based server solutions," said Rajiv Samant, general manager of UNIX, IBM. "Looking forward, we will leverage our key technologies and enhancements in the development of Monterey 64." Enterprise Backing The UnixWare platform is backed by more leading enterprise OEMs than any other UNIX System on the market, including Compaq, Data General, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, ICL, Siemens, Unisys and others. Their widespread support enhances the UnixWare value proposition for customers by delivering the economic benefit of a volume operating system that runs across multiple hardware platforms. Application Support UnixWare runs applications from the leading enterprise application vendors, including Oracle, IBM (DB2, Tivoli, MQSeries), Computer Associates, Informix, BEA, and many others. The ISV community recognizes and welcomes the penetration of high-volume UNIX based Intel systems in the enterprise and beyond. Proven Service and Support Key to deploying any enterprise and data center environment is world-class service and support, and SCO and its partners work together to deliver just that. In addition to leveraging the proven enterprise service and support expertise of its enterprise OEM partners, SCO today rolled out enhanced Professional Services offerings designed to provide top-level support for SCO's growing enterprise and data center customers. See http://www.sco.com/unixware/product_family for more information in the UnixWare 7 Data Center Edition and http://www.sco.com/monterey for more information on Project Monterey. About SCO SCO is the world's number one provider of UNIX server operating systems, and the leading provider of network computing software that enables clients of all kinds - including PCs, graphical terminals, NCs, and other devices - to have Webtop access to business-critical applications running on servers of all kinds. SCO designed Tarantella software, the world's first application broker for network computing. SCO sells and supports its products through a worldwide network of distributors, resellers, systems integrators, and OEMs. For more information, see SCO's WWW home page at: http://www.sco.com . ### SCO, The Santa Cruz Operation, the SCO logo, Tarantella, and UnixWare are trademarks or registered trademarks of The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc, in the US and other countries. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the US and other countries. All other brand or product names are or may be trademarks of, and are used to identify products or services of, their respective owners. *Source International Data Corporation/IBM, 1998. ---------------------------- Brian Ziel Senior PR Manager Tel: 831-427-7252 Fax: 831-427-5418 mailto:bri...@sco.com http://www.sco.com/press ----------------------------